Lawmakers set sights on telehealth as a way to strengthen and preserve Medicare Both Democratic and Republican legislators want to further expansion of telehealth services, especially for Medicare ...

HOUSTON – Telehealth visits could soon get pricier for a lot of Americans. The COVID-19 pandemic showed how much can be done from the comfort of home -- doctor's visits included. But now, more doctors ...

Qin Zhu, a UW professor of kinesiology and health, poses next to a webcam setup showing master’s student Jason Feng standing next to a motion-capture suit on a mannequin. Zhu led a recent study that ...

Time is ticking as the window for Medicare recipients to access telehealth services comes to close. Telehealth is the reason why patients covered by Medicare can see their health care provider without ...

The public health emergency during the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the concept of telehealth and mental health care into the mainstream. As a result, we have seen that delivery of mental health services ...

With an ongoing shortage of mental health providers, particularly in rural areas, requiring patients to see doctors in-person to get prescriptions for controlled drugs severely restricts access to ...

Congress is set to grant a five-month extension to telehealth flexibilities, created during the pandemic, as part of the 2022 omnibus spending bill made public March 9. The $1.5 trillion omnibus ...

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When the pandemic hit in March 2020, the biggest worry for OLV Human Services in Lackawanna, New York – as with most agencies – was that the most vulnerable population served would possibly have ...